An interesting take from Alex Fein in #RedbridgeIntel. What do everyday Australians want, and what binds then to each other viewed though the political lense — because living in societies is very much about #politics.

“Consider the rise of One Nation. The reflexive interpretation from the political/media class is that this represents a lurch to the far right. It does not.

What it represents is a furious rejection of the neoliberal consensus shared by both major parties: a rejection of Labor and the Coalition’s fidelity to sectional interests that lobby them to legislate (or not legislate) in ways that are manifestly counter to the national interest.”
Readmore:
https://redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/polarisation-is-a-myth

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Polarisation is a Myth

With One Nation ascendant, those with the greatest interest in keeping us divided need us to forget how much we agree. The first progressive party to harness this properly will be unstoppable.

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@peterrenshaw
Fine by me, as long as the crew are #PHON members or supporters and Gina supplies the ship.

@InsurgoFormica
Well… any ‘asian’ when you mention it, they classify as “Other” and that’s a ripe target for ‘hate’ and ‘blame’ if you’re in the #LNP and #PHON parties. WTAF?

#Antifa #AntiRacism #AusPol

Some more on #AngusTaylor :

‘ 12.49 AEDT The POint — online
Angus Taylor uses welcoming speech to attack Islamic migration. Angus Taylor also used his speech to continue pushing Islamophobia. He said in his official address:

“Another mutual threat is Islamic extremism. In Europe and in Australia, the generosity of liberal democracies has been exploited.

We’ve opened our doors some people who don’t want to embrace our culture, who want erase it. The doors must [be shut to those who don’t embrace our culture]

Our culture can only survive by putting our values at the very centre of our immigration policies.’

Of course he doesn’t mention the mutual threat of far right extremism, which has been home grown in both Europe and Australia. What does that say about our ‘values’?”

Before Middle Eastern cultures, there was ‘red under the bed’, Greek and Italian migrants, recently African migrants have been targeted as well. the LNP is replete with #Racists. It’s all they can do from not getting in bed with #PHON. For this reason as well, I hate the #fascist #tRump

#AusPol #LNP #Racism #Biggotry

@wolfpanther
I think the issue is that some #PHON booth teams were hand writing preferences onto how-t0-vote cards before handing them out.

@John I endured to see what they said about SA then Freedom Boy turned up and that was enough.😉

#Libs are now seen as useless with petty infighting consuming them and policies only negative, no future planning only personal self enrichment.

Suspect it is very optimistic to imply 'protest votes' account for #PHON success. It is more serious than that, there are many malcontents only too pleased to support racism and guns, such as the sovereign citizen rabble. PHON bangs the drum that immigrants are the reason, which is nonsense, but they want to believe it.
People are rightly frightened by this present world and the instinct to shut it all out of Australia is not unnatural. They forget that PHON
supported and encouraged exactly what has caused this to happen through #USA and #Israel warmongering.
But also many strugglers disappointed and disillusioned with #Labor broken promises. Just a few examples:-
They see big companies like Colesworth making huge profits while cheating on so called 'bargsin ' prices, while they can't cover cost of groceries, can't even dream of a roast on Sunday.
People still having to work multiple shifts to support families then seeing MPs cheat with expenses. MPs having multiple houses through neg gearing etc while they struggle to pay rent.
Families broken by gambling yet children still exposed to ads at every TV sport aired.
Hopes for Aged Care and NDIS improvements shattered by new cost cutting systems and rules making for hardship of increased expense and loss of previous services.
Labor better take this as a strong warning, not a triumph. #Greens have serious work to do nationally.